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Beautiful Games: a complete illustrated history of football

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games.: Football Mishmash illustration — Kevin Keegan's famous TV rant while manager of Newcastle and Sepp Blatter announcing Qatar as hosts of the 2022 World Cup
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — Tony Adams drops Steve Morrow at the end of the 1993 League Cup final and a peeved Graham Taylor as England boss
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — Rene Higuita's scorpion kick against England in 1995, Thierry Henry's handball against Ireland, Bruce Grobbelaar's wobbly legs and Denis Law's backheel
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — A Chesterfield fan gets a clip round the ear during a pitch invasion and Maradona faces a legion of Belgian players
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — David Beckham through the years and Joe Jordan squaring up to Gennaro Gattuso
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — Joe Hart argues with a pitch invader, Stuart Pearce goes crazy after scoring a penalty and Liverpool's Spice Boys in cream suits
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — The Accrington Stanley milk advert from the 1980s and Paul the octopus from World Cup 2010
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — David Busst's horrific leg-break, Eden Hazard wrestling with a ballboy, Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick and Paul Gascoigne's 'dentist's chair' celebration against Scotland
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games.: Football Mishmash illustration — Brian Clough passes verdict on himself and Dino Zoff lifts the World Cup for Italy
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — The wally with the Brolly (Steve McClaren), Roger Milla's corner flag celebration and FC Stjarnan's brilliant fishing goal-celebration
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games.: Football Mishmash illustration — Gascoigne's plastic beer belly costume
Illustration: Alex Bennett

Beautiful Games: Football Mishmash illustration — Kieron Dyer and Lee Bowyer's notorious scrap and Mario Balotelli's 'Why Always Me?' T-shirt
Illustration: Alex Bennett

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